Southbound I-55 traffic is being rerouted at the Gardner exit after a serious two-vehicle wreck north of Dwight.

Investigators are turning to new technology to finally name a man found dead in a suburban Chicago canal two decades ago.

A Maywood senior building faces a bed bug problem residents say keeps returning, with one longtime tenant treated for bites as recently as August.

Tyreese Russell, 33, is accused of exposing himself to two teens at a Central Street Starbucks; months earlier, he was arrested in Joliet in a similar case.

A masked robber demanded cash, phones and wallets from lawn care workers across Englewood before speeding off in a car.

Cassandra Mosley-Dagons allegedly whipped her grandson with an extension cord and kept both teens isolated through homeschooling since 2020.

Demond Williams, 46, faces assault and weapons charges after a knife-wielding chase near a Hubbard Street hotel left him critically wounded.

Jeffrey Hawkins Jr. faces six felony counts tied to alleged abuse that began when he was a teenager.

A 57-year-old man and 65-year-old woman were hurt Wednesday when gunfire broke out aboard a CTA bus in Englewood.

A 15-year-old boy now faces murder charges after Kyle Bickham was pushed from a moving Red Line train near 69th Street.

A fresh ridership-to-crime comparison flags Cicero as the CTA's highest-crime stop, while CTA-related assaults rose even as citywide aggravated assaults and batteries fell 15% from 2024 to 2025.

Hawkins Point's incinerator will stop burning hazardous waste within months under a new state consent decree.

Michael Gargiulo, already on death row in California, faces trial in Cook County for Tricia Pacaccio's 1993 killing.